The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 33

When the cake was baked very hard and dry she took it from the oven and rolled it in butter, laying a slice of raw bacon around it.

Who acts: task · What happens: bake, take, roll, lay, slice · To what, where: cake, oven, butter, slice, raw bacon

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (task), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 baked	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cake	det
3	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 baked	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 baked	aux:pass
5	baked	bake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 took	advcl
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 hard	advmod
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 baked	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dry	cc
9	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hard	conj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 took	nsubj
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 took	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 oven	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 oven	det
15	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 rolled	cc
17	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 took	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 rolled	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 butter	case
20	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rolled	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 laying	punct
22	laying	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 rolled	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 slice	det
24	slice	slice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 laying	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 bacon	case
26	raw	raw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 bacon	amod
27	bacon	bacon	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 slice	nmod
28	around	around	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 laying	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bake	past · passive		the cake		hard property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
2	take	past	task	cake	the oven		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from oven=Initial_Location
3	roll	past	task not said here	cake	butter		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme in butter=Trajectory
4	lay	gerund	task not said here	a slice of raw bacon	cake		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent slice=Theme around it=Destination
5	slice			raw bacon			nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 33

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 33